Online booking for driving schools
Learners book a 60 or 90-minute lesson from their phone with pickup from their address, and you know their licence status, logbook hours and whether it's auto or manual before you pull up. Every lesson waits for your OK.
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What a driving school needs from booking software
Pickup from their door
Every booking takes the pickup address, which opens in Google Maps from the booking, and a 15-minute gap between lessons is built in for the drive to the next one.
The student before the lesson
Licence status, learner permit number, logbook hours, auto or manual, what to work on, and the test date and centre if it's booked. All asked when they book.
The test-day package
Pickup, a warm-up lesson, the car for the test and the drop-off, as one booking. It holds a 50% deposit on the card and waits for your approval, since it commits the car to a test slot.
A driving school booking page, with your lessons already on it
Pick Driving school at sign-up and these services, prices and booking questions are pre-filled. Change anything, or let AI draft them for you.
One learner, from first lesson to test day
A parent books the first lesson
From the link on your Facebook page, she picks Driving lesson (60 min), Saturday at 10 am, and gives the pickup address, her son's learner permit number, that he has 20 logbook hours, that it's automatic, and that he needs to work on roundabouts.
It waits for your OK
The request shows up on your phone with everything she wrote. Confirm it and she gets the confirmation; the address is one tap from the booking and opens in Google Maps.
Reminders, and the next lesson
A free email reminder goes out the day before. He books the following Saturdays himself from your link, and each one comes to you to confirm.
Test day
When the test is booked, she picks the Driving test package: 50% is held on her card as she books, charged when you approve it. The rest, and every lesson, is paid by card, bank transfer or cash, and the invoice goes out on its own.
You do the work.
We'll handle the money.
Take a card deposit when they book — through your own Stripe account, so the money lands with you, never with us. Settle the rest by card, bank transfer or cash and the invoice goes out on its own — a GST tax invoice if you’re registered. No monthly fee: 1.5% on card payments, 50¢ when you record a cash or bank payment.
Questions driving instructors ask us
Do learners book from their own phone?
Yes. Learners, or their parents, open your link and pick a lesson, a time and the pickup address, with no app to download. Every lesson arrives as a request you confirm with one tap.
Can I take a deposit for the test-day package?
Yes. The Driving school setup holds a 50% deposit on the card for the test package, since it commits your car to a test slot, and charges it when you approve the booking. Set any percentage on any service; card payments go through your own Stripe account.
How does pickup work?
Lessons are at the student's address: the booking asks for it and it opens in Google Maps from the booking. A 15-minute gap between lessons is set for travel.
What does the booking ask the student?
Licence status (learner, P1, P2, refresher or converting an overseas licence), learner permit number, logbook hours, automatic or manual, and what they want to work on, plus the test date, time and centre if they've booked one.
Does it work with more than one instructor?
Yes. Each instructor's car is its own resource with its own hours. Students book with the instructor they know or take whichever instructor is free first, and the booking says whether they need automatic or manual.
How much does it cost a driving school?
There is no monthly fee. GoBookka charges 1.5% on card payments and 50c when you record a cash or bank transfer payment, and every new business gets $20 of launch credit at signup.
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Set up in about ten minutes. No monthly fee, no card needed — and $20 of booking credit to start.
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